The 7 Helpful Questions are at the heart of helping you gain perspective about where your company is right now. Our suggestion is to answer from the perspective or perspectives you know best, but always thinking of it from the perspective of "what would be best for the company as a whole.
Purpose Statement - Why Do We Exist?
Core Values - What Do We Truly Value?
The importance of defining your Core Values in creating clarity for your organization cannot be overstated. More than anything else, Core Values are critical because they define a company’s culture. They provide employees with clarity about how to behave, but the impact of values goes beyond employees. Clear values can also serve to attract and repel the right customers who want to do business with an organization that reflects what they value.
Vision - Where Are We Going?
Vision Focus Areas & 1 Year Goals
Action Plan - Quarterly Initiatives & Steps
Quarterly Initiatives help keep the bigger picture in focus and not let the day to day firefighting take over. By taking the time to define Quarterly Initiatives and the steps to accomplish them, every owner of an initiative knows exactly what they need to do to push the 1 Year Goals forward and whether they are on-track or off-track to accomplishing their owned initiatives.